Many confuse my manner with shyness or rudeness, but they are not the same — Whenever I ask my father what I was like as a child—whether I was difficult or hot-tempered, meek or affectionate, endearing or rambunctious—he usually tells me about my first day of daycare. My parents enrolled me into a formal daycare center when I was two. …

The beauty of living only a few miles from the city in which I was born and raised is the consistence in which I run into people I know without planning to. I have the kind of face that has maintained its same structure and inflections as they were when…

The Coccinellidae is a member of the beetle family whose measurements range from .8 to 18 mm, significantly less than an inch. Their features are distinguishable by a large red outer layer with black dotted spots, but they can also come in more vibrant hues as yellow and honey brown…